[United States Senate Manual, 113th Congress]
[S. Doc. 113-1]
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[Pages 287-292]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


 
                            TITLE 1.--GENERAL PROVISIONS

            Chapter 2.--ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS; FORMALITIES OF ENACTMENT; 
                           REPEALS; SEALING OF INSTRUMENTS

       275  Sec. 101. Enacting clause.
                The enacting clause of all Acts of Congress shall be in 
            the following form: ``Be it enacted by the Senate and House 
            of Representatives of the United States of America in 
            Congress assembled.'' (July 30, 1947, c. 388, 61 Stat. 634.)
       276  Sec. 102. Resolving clause.
                The resolving clause of all joint resolutions shall be 
            in the following form: ``Resolved by the Senate and House of 
            Representatives of the United States of America in Congress 
            assembled.'' (July 30, 1947, c. 388, 61 Stat. 634.)
       277  Sec. 103. Enacting or resolving words after first section.
                No enacting or resolving words shall be used in any 
            section of an Act or resolution of Congress except in the 
            first. (July 30, 1947, c. 388, 61 Stat. 634.)
       278  Sec. 104. Numbering of sections; single proposition.
                Each section shall be numbered, and shall contain, as 
            nearly as may be, a single proposition of enactment. (July 
            30, 1947, c. 388, 61 Stat. 634.)

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       279  Sec. 105. Title of appropriation Acts.
                The style and title of all Acts making appropriations 
            for the support of Government shall be as follows: ``An Act 
            making appropriations (here insert the object) for the year 
            ending September 30 (here insert the calendar year).'' (July 
            30, 1947, c. 388, 61 Stat. 634; July 12, 1974, Pub.L. 93-
            344, Title V, Sec. 506(a), 88 Stat. 322.)
       280  Sec. 106. Printing bills and joint resolutions.
                Every bill or joint resolution in each House of Congress 
            shall, when such bill or resolution passes either House, be 
            printed, and such printed copy shall be called the engrossed 
            bill or resolution as the case may be. Said engrossed bill 
            or resolution shall be signed by the Clerk of the House or 
            the Secretary of the Senate, and shall be sent to the other 
            House, and in that form shall be dealt with by that House 
            and its officers, and, if passed, returned signed by said 
            Clerk or Secretary. When such bill, or joint resolution 
            shall have passed both Houses, it shall be printed and shall 
            then be called the enrolled bill, or joint resolution, as 
            the case may be, and shall be signed by the presiding 
            officers of both Houses and sent to the President of the 
            United States. During the last six days of a session such 
            engrossing and enrolling of bills and joint resolutions may 
            be done otherwise than as above prescribed, upon the order 
            of Congress by concurrent resolution. (July 30, 1947, c. 
            388, 61 Stat. 634.)
       281  Sec. 106a. Promulgation of laws.
                Whenever a bill, order, resolution, or vote of the 
            Senate and House of Representatives, having been approved by 
            the President, or not having been returned by him with his 
            objections, becomes a law or takes effect, it shall 
            forthwith be received by the Archivist of the United States 
            from the President; and whenever a bill, order, resolution, 
            or vote is returned by the President with his objections, 
            and, on being reconsidered, is agreed to be passed, and is 
            approved by two-thirds of both Houses of Congress, and 
            thereby becomes a law or takes effect, it shall be received 
            by the Archivist of the United States from the President of 
            the Senate, or Speaker of the House of Representatives in 
            whichsoever House it shall last have been so approved, and 
            he shall carefully preserve the originals. (Added Oct. 31, 
            1951, c. 655, Sec. 2(b), 65 Stat. 710, and amended Oct. 19, 
            1984, Pub.L. 98-497, Title I, Sec. 107(d), 98 Stat. 2291.)
       282  Sec. 106b. Amendments to Constitution.
                Whenever official notice is received at the National 
            Archives and Records Administration that any amendment 
            proposed to the Constitution of the United States has been 
            adopted, according to the provisions of the Constitution, 
            the Archivist of the United States shall forthwith cause the 
            amendment to be published, with his certificate, specifying 
            the States by which the same may have been adopted, and that 
            the same has become valid, to all intents and purposes, as a 
            part of the Constitution of the United States. (Added Oct. 
            31, 1951, c. 655, Sec. 2(b), 65 Stat. 710, and amended Oct. 
            19, 1984, Pub.L. 98-497, Title I, Sec. 107(d), 98 Stat. 
            2291.)

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       283  Sec. 107. Parchment or paper for printing enrolled bills or 
                resolutions.
                Enrolled bills and resolutions of either House of 
            Congress shall be printed on parchment or paper of suitable 
            quality as shall be determined by the Joint Committee on 
            Printing. (July 30, 1947, c. 388, 61 Stat. 635.)
       284  Sec. 108. Repeal of repealing act.
                Whenever an Act is repealed, which repealed a former 
            Act, such former Act shall not thereby be revived, unless it 
            shall be expressly so provided. (July 30, 1947, c. 388, 61 
            Stat. 635.)
       285  Sec. 109. Repeal of statutes as affecting existing 
                liabilities.
                The repeal of any statute shall not have the effect to 
            release or extinguish any penalty, forfeiture, or liability 
            incurred under such statute, unless the repealing Act shall 
            so expressly provide, and such statute shall be treated as 
            still remaining in force for the purpose of sustaining any 
            proper action or prosecution for the enforcement of such 
            penalty, forfeiture, or liability. The expiration of a 
            temporary statute shall not have the effect to release or 
            extinguish any penalty, forfeiture, or liability incurred 
            under such statute, unless the temporary statute shall so 
            expressly provide, and, such statute shall be treated as 
            still remaining in force for the purpose of sustaining any 
            proper action or prosecution for the enforcement of such 
            penalty, forfeiture, or liability. (July 30, 1947, c. 388, 
            61 Stat. 635.)
       286  Sec. 110. Saving clause of Revised Statutes.
                All acts of limitation, whether applicable to civil 
            causes and proceedings, or to the prosecution of offenses, 
            or for the recovery of penalties or forfeitures, embraced in 
            the Revised Statutes and covered by the repeal contained 
            therein, shall not be affected thereby, but all suits, 
            proceedings, or prosecutions, whether civil or criminal, for 
            causes arising, or acts done or committed prior to said 
            repeal, may be commenced and prosecuted within the same time 
            as if said repeal had not been made. (July 30, 1947, c. 388, 
            61 Stat. 635.)
       287  Sec. 111. Repeals as evidence of prior effectiveness.
                No inference shall be raised by the enactment of the Act 
            of March 3, 1933 (ch. 202, 47 Stat. 1431), that the sections 
            of the Revised Statutes repealed by such Act were in force 
            or effect at the time of such enactment: Provided, however, 
            That any rights or liabilities existing under such repealed 
            sections shall not be affected by their repeal. (July 30, 
            1947, c. 388, 61 Stat. 635.)
       288  Sec. 112. Statutes at large; contents; admissibility in 
                evidence.
                The Archivist of the United States shall cause to be 
            compiled, edited, indexed, and published, the United States 
            Statutes at Large, which shall contain all the laws and 
            concurrent resolutions enacted during each regular session 
            of Congress; all proclamations by the President in the 
            numbered series issued since the date of the adjournment of

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            the regular session of Congress next preceding; and also any 
            amendments to the Constitution of the United States proposed 
            or ratified pursuant to article V thereof since that date, 
            together with the certificate of the Archivist of the United 
            States issued in compliance with the provision contained in 
            section 106b of this title. In the event of an extra session 
            of Congress, the Archivist of the United States shall cause 
            all the laws and concurrent resolutions enacted during said 
            extra session to be consolidated with, and published as part 
            of, the contents of the volume for the next regular session. 
            The United States Statutes at Large shall be legal evidence 
            of laws, concurrent resolutions, treaties, international 
            agreements other than treaties, proclamations by the 
            President, and proposed or ratified amendments to the 
            Constitution of the United States therein contained, in all 
            the courts of the United States, the several States, and the 
            Territories and insular possessions of the United States. 
            (July 30, 1947, ch. 388, 61 Stat. 636; Sept. 23, 1950, ch. 
            1001, Sec. 1, 64 Stat. 979; Oct. 31, 1951, ch. 655, Sec. 3, 
            65 Stat. 710; Oct. 19, 1984, Pub.L. 98-497, Title I, 
            Sec. 107(d), 98 Stat. 2291.)
       289  Sec. 112b. United States international agreements; 
                transmission to Congress.
                (a) The Secretary of State shall transmit to the 
            Congress the text of any international agreement (including 
            the text of any oral international agreement, which 
            agreement shall be reduced to writing), other than a treaty, 
            to which the United States is a party as soon as practicable 
            after such agreement has entered into force with respect to 
            the United States but in no event later than sixty days 
            thereafter. However, any such agreement the immediate public 
            disclosure of which would, in the opinion of the President, 
            be prejudicial to the national security of the United States 
            shall not be so transmitted to the Congress but shall be 
            transmitted to the Committee on Foreign Relations of the 
            Senate and the Committee on International Relations of the 
            House of Representatives under an appropriate injunction of 
            secrecy to be removed only upon due notice from the 
            President. Any department or agency of the United States 
            Government which enters into any international agreement on 
            behalf of the United States shall transmit to the Department 
            of State the text of such agreement not later than twenty 
            days after such agreement has been signed.
                (b) Not later than March 1, 1979, and at yearly 
            intervals thereafter, the President shall, under his own 
            signature, transmit to the Speaker of the House of 
            Representatives and the chairman of the Committee on Foreign 
            Relations of the Senate a report with respect to each 
            international agreement which, during the preceding year, 
            was transmitted to the Congress after the expiration of the 
            60-day period referred to in the first sentence of 
            subsection (a), describing fully and completely the reasons 
            for the late transmittal.
                (c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an 
            international agreement may not be signed or otherwise 
            concluded on behalf of the United States without prior 
            consultation with the Secretary of State. Such consultation 
            may encompass a class of agreements rather than a particular 
            agreement.
                (d)(1) The Secretary of State shall annually submit to 
            Congress a report that contains an index of all 
            international agreements, listed by country, date, title, 
            and summary of each such agreement (including

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            a description of the duration of activities under the 
            agreement and the agreement itself), that the United 
            States--
                            (A) has signed, proclaimed, or with 
                        reference to which any other final formality has 
                        been executed, or that has been extended or 
                        otherwise modified, during the preceding 
                        calendar year; and
                            (B) has not been published, or is not 
                        proposed to be published, in the compilation 
                        entitled ``United States Treaties and Other 
                        International Agreements''.
                (2) The report described in paragraph (1) may be 
            submitted in classified form.
                (e)(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the Secretary of State 
            shall determine for and within the executive branch whether 
            an arrangement constitutes an international agreement within 
            the meaning of this section.
                (2)(A) An arrangement shall constitute an international 
            agreement within the meaning of this section (other than 
            subsection (c)) irrespective of the duration of activities 
            under the arrangement or the arrangement itself.
                (B) Arrangements that constitute an international 
            agreement within the meaning of this section (other than 
            subsection (c)) include the following:
                            (i) A bilateral or multilateral 
                        counterterrorism agreement.
                            (ii) A bilateral agreement with a country 
                        that is subject to a determination under section 
                        6(j)(1)(A) of the Export Administration Act of 
                        1979 (50 U.S.C. App. 2405(j)(1)(A)), section 
                        620A(a) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 
                        (22 U.S.C. 2371(a)), or section 40(d) of the 
                        Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2780(d)).
                (f) The President shall, through the Secretary of State, 
            promulgate such rules and regulations as may be necessary to 
            carry out this section. (Pub.L. 92-403, Sec. 1, Aug. 22, 
            1972, 86 Stat. 619; Pub.L. 95-45, Sec. 5, June 15, 1977, 91 
            Stat. 224; Pub.L. 95-426, Title VII, Sec. 708, Oct. 7, 1978, 
            92 Stat. 993; Pub.L. 103-236, Sec. 138, Apr. 30, 1994, 108 
            Stat. 397; Pub.L. 103-437, Sec. 1, Nov. 2, 1994, 108 Stat. 
            4581; Pub.L. 108-458, Title VII, Sec. 7121(b) to (d), Dec. 
            17, 2004, 118 Stat. 3807, 3808.)

             Chapter 3.--CODE OF LAWS OF UNITED STATES AND SUPPLEMENTS; 
                      DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CODE AND SUPPLEMENTS

       290  Sec. 211. Copies [of the Code of Laws] to Members of 
                Congress.
                In addition to quotas provided for by section 210 of 
            this title there shall be printed, published, and 
            distributed of the Code of Laws relating to the District of 
            Columbia with tables, index and other ancillaries, suitably 
            bound and with thumb inserts and other convenient devices to 
            distinguish the parts, and of the supplements to both codes 
            as provided for by sections 202, 203 of this title, ten 
            copies of each for each Member of the Senate and House of 
            Representatives of the Congress in which the original 
            authorized publication is made, for his use and 
            distribution, and in addition for the Committee on the 
            Judiciary of the House of Representatives and the Committee 
            on the Judiciary of the Senate a number of bound copies of 
            each equal to ten times the number of members of such 
            committees, and one bound copy of each for the use of each 
            committee of the Senate and House of Representatives. (July 
            30, 1947, ch. 388, 61 Stat. 640.)

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       291  Sec. 212. Additional distribution at each new Congress.
                In addition the Superintendent of Documents shall, at 
            the beginning of the first session of each Congress, supply 
            to each Senator and Representative in such Congress, who may 
            in writing apply for the same, one copy each of the Code of 
            Laws of the United States, the Code of Laws relating to the 
            District of Columbia, and the latest supplement to each 
            code: Provided, That such applicant shall certify in his 
            written application for the same that the volume or volumes 
            for which he applies is intended for his personal use 
            exclusively: And provided further, That no Senator or 
            Representative during his term of service shall receive 
            under this section more than one copy each of the volumes 
            enumerated herein. (July 30, 1947, Ch. 388, 61 Stat. 640.)
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